Random issue, with no clear reason to why it's happening. Users will lose their home folder connection out of the blue (AD - U & C, Profile tab, Home folder "connect" section). All users are on XP machines. AD is 2000. Any help?

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I had the users mapped drives as "Disconnected Network Drive" for a while. It turns out that Symantec Corp. Ed. had a bug in it that disconnect the mapped drives on boot scan. I found a reg patch that disabled the boot scan, and all is well. No virus has leaked thru (..yet..) and it fixed the mapped drive issue.

If you are using Symantec Endpoint Protection then Jeff is right on there. That program has caused so many problems until the last major patch came out a couple months ago. Shame on symantec for charging thousand dollars for an alpha realease product.

I'm using Corp. Ed. v.10 at both jobs. Won't work on Vista, it won't even let the installer load.....

*Rant Warning*

I have had so many issues with it, I want to replace it. I've had to completely remove & re-install it 3x at my other job, and once here. I don't find it very stable, nor effective. It will stop in it's tracks at the slightest burp on network. It's also a resouce hog on the client workstations.

hmmm. from what Ive read on symantec changelogs , 11.0.2015.25 was supposed to fix the network shares issue. I would check the symantec forums, try searching through everyone bashing this product and there may be some help in there. I also know there was another patch realeased a couple weks ago, we did not install it becuase our install is finally working correctly, and I dont want to bork it.

It could possibly fix the network share issue, depending on what is considered as a "fix".

they got around the issue by giving more options in the "Access Control and Device Blocking" section of the App itself.

If, like most of us, you are worried about uncontrolled access via USB, Bluetooth, external drives and so forth... You can block "generic volumes" like said mentionned... However still allowing your USB ports to work, Keyboard, Mouse, Aladdin HASP keys and so on.

The system is not smart enough though to not block a "network share" or a "framestore" for example connected to a network cable, because M$ considers this a "generic volume".

Work arounds are available, but not really worth unsecuring your network... Shame on them, they are still having us Beta test.

Not to mention, that most everything doesn't work on a 64 bit system...

I've just started searching the net on this topic and it seems SEP is rather problematic when it comes to network shares. I'm having an identical problem in that random users loose their mapped netowrk drives at random times. The only thing I have in common is now SEP 11.0.5002.333

so if this is an updated version then is it possible that Symantec has not fixed this or could their be another problem on the network? Any thoughts on this?

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